XPost: rec.sport.football.college, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.support.ocd   
   XPost: alt.romance   
   From: email@munged.com   
      
   What I really want to know is why the folks in rec.sports.football.college   
   need to know about this.   
      
   Miki   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1131955692.754481.47720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >I am deeply spiritual, but not necessarily religious. Nevertheless,   
   > at various times I have appealed in prayer to St. Theresa (Teresa de   
   > Cepeda y Ahumada), Padre Pio, St. Francis of Assisi, Our Lady of Guad-   
   > alupe (Mary), Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) and many other saints.   
   > Thus far, only a very small fraction of my prayers have been answered,   
   > and usually only when I am not expecting them to be!   
   >   
   > This evening, I closed my eyes and imagined St. Theresa in my mind.   
   > I saw deep blue eyes, a slightly weathered face, and a stern but   
   > knowing gaze. She wore the outfit of a typical nun. Not so typical   
   > was her intense and rigorous devoutness to God. I saw St. Theresa   
   > writing in a large book. She was seated at a desk and writing   
   > with a feather.   
   >   
   > My soul appeared before her and gazed into her eyes. She smiled at   
   > me warmly. Then she motioned for me to sit down and thus I did   
   > immediately.   
   >   
   > "Now," she said to me,"tell me your wishes..."   
   >   
   > I (my soul, actually) thought for a moment. Deep within my soul is the   
   > strongest of desires to be married and raise a family. I told St.   
   > Theresa   
   > that I wished how my daughter would choose my wife for me, that I   
   > wanted her to choose someone I would not normally choose for myself,   
   > and   
   > that I would accept the decision of my unborn daughter without   
   > question.   
   >   
   > St. Theresa smiled, then nodded and replied,"Okay...Anything else?"   
   >   
   > I asked her if I could somehow get my lost game back. By game I meant   
   > something I actually wrote some time ago but accidentally lost. But she   
   > shook her head as if to say,"No."   
   >   
   > I asked her why. She replied,"Because if we gave you everything, you   
   > would   
   > no longer want anything. The heart that does not want, does not   
   > beat..."   
   >   
   > She motioned me away quickly, and I floated back down the tunnel into   
   > my physical body. I awoke with a high degree of peace within my soul.   
   > St. Theresa was right. I can't have everything I want in this lifetime;   
   > it would spoil the point of being alive.   
   >   
   > Paul   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)